Softcover. Berlin GR, Stiftung Weimarer Klassik, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 148 pages, very richly illustrated with color illustrations depicting Friedrich Neitzsche. German text. Clean copy.
NY, Harper and Brothers, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black farmer helping automobile riders by filling their overheated radiator with a jug of water. Art by John A. Coughlin. Approx. 10 X 13". PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges. Klein surveys the history of Matisse's portraits and their sitters, with attention to the details of the financial transaction or other agreement that caused the painting to be made. An analysis of Matisse's self-portraits is also provided. Klein works chronologically, detailing the artist's developing style, but remains attached to his biography as well, with many quotes about Matisse or his works from contemporary sources. This volume is well illustrated with b&w and color plates.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 130 pages, b&w comic art by Hernandez. Ten years in the making (and torn from the pages of the legendary Love and Rockets), Jaime Hernandez's graphic novel skillfully weaves two generations of his beloved characters into a satisfying story of love - both young and middle-aged. Life Drawing darts primarily between the youthful Tonta and the venerable Maggie. Tonta has a crush on her art teacher, Ray, as well as an axe to grind with an older woman in the neighbourhood. When Tonta finds that the woman, Maggie, is married to Ray, things get complicated. And Tonta does not handle complications well. Life Drawing showcases Hernandez's brilliant talent for character, weaving relationships, rejections, infidelities, and adventures. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Titan Books , 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. In his own words, this is the life of Joe Simon, one of the most important figures in comics history, and half of the famous creative team Simon and Kirby. Joe Simon co-created Captain America, and was the first editor in chief of Marvel Comics (where he hired Stan Lee for his first job in comics).
Softcover. Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalogue of Alfred Thompson Bricher. Softcover, 103 pages; plates in black & white; chronology. Cover: "A Pensive Moment" (color). In very good condition.
1947, Color art of city sanitation workers cleaning city street, joined by late reveler. 10 x 13" small label. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Softcover. New York, Plume/Penguin Group, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 218 pages. Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, his adventures, his enemies, his allies, and his long-suffering sweetheart and eventual mate, Tess Truehart, live again in the one book that traces his entire crime-fighting career; enriched by a wealth of original classic strips in black-and-white, with 24 pages of color. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages, illustrated in color. Bright, clean copy in similar dust jacket.
1933, Color art of couple riding sled in snow by George Rapp. 10 X 13", small label. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Hardcover. Australia, T & G Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color photographs throughout. Max Pam is one of Australia's most important contemporary photographers. His success is based on a body of provocative and compellingly intimate images of people from all over the world. This substantial publication with notes gives an emotional, sometimes lyrical, provocative, always intimate portrait of the artist as much as the people and places he has witnessed.
Softcover. New York, M. Knoedler & Company, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, vintage exhibition catalog. Unpaginated, b&w and color plates. Light wear to edges, spine. Else a clean, tight copy.
1925, Book: Very Good, Portrait of the graduate. Young lady holding her diploma and carrying a bouquet of roses by Neysa McMein. 10 X 13", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Hardcover. London, Titan, 1st Titan, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy. Color illustrations throughout. From the very beginning in 1934, these are the original adventures of the famous comic strip detective - collected in full for the very first time! Mandrake is a master of hypnosis, whose ability causes his opponents to encounter wild illusions, giving the heroes the upper hand in a fight. His enemies cover a broad spectrum, including gangsters, mad scientists, alien creatures, and characters from other adventures. His greatest ally is Lothar, "Prince of the Seven Nations" who gave up his crown to join Mandrake in his globe-trotting adventures. They are accompanied by the beautiful Narda, princess of a European nation and Mandrake's romantic interest.
Softcover. Prague, galerie Behemot, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, 48 pages, tan paper wrappers, color illustrations from his exhibition titled Professor Frankenstein. Softcover exhibition catalog.
Softcover. London, Art/Books Hastings Contemporary, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 128 pages illustrated in color. The husband of Paula Rego and a visionary artist in his own right, Victor Willing (1928-1988) creates work that is characterized by dreamlike and hallucinatory imagery. Published to accompany the first major retrospective of his career, this volume traces his life decade by decade, charting his history of creative block and ill health, and analysing his paintings, drawings and sculptures.
Softcover. Russia, Contemporary Art Museum, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 514 pages. Only 2000 copies printed. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout.
Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on Milt Caniff and Chuck Jones birthdays, editorial cartoonist Calvin Grondahl, Fontaine Fox, Don Martin, Clare Briggs, David Wright of the UK strip Carol Day, others.
1945, Book: Very Good, Color art of farmers spreading hay in snow for cattle by Matt Clark. 10 X 13", mailing label. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Hardcover. Minneapolis MN, Walker Art Center/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 152 pages. No markings, Fine; no dust jacket as published. Boards, bibliography, color and B&W reproductions and photos of Close's amazing self-portraits.
Hardcover. Paris, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 506 pages, hundreds of b&w and color illustrations featuring English sculptors and their work. Boards with die-cut to front cover revealing art on front fly leaf. FRENCH TEXT, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Gambit, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, heavy cloth covered boards with a blue and gilt title block on the spine and a gilt facsimile of N.C. Wyeth's signature on the front board. Worn dust jacket with 1" triangular chip gone from top front panel tear, mild shelfwear. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2", 858 pages, stated 1st edition. A fascinating insight into Wyeth's life, interspersed with photos and color reproductions. N. C. Wyeth was one of America's greatest illustrators and the founder of a dynasty of artists that continues to enrich the American scene. This collection of letters, written from his eighteenth year to his tragic death at sixty-one, constitutes in effect his intimate autobiography, and traces the development and flowering of the Wyeth tradition over the course of several generations. No markings.
Hardcover. London, Cory, Adams & Mackay, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 84 pages. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket shows heavy wear and rubbing, laminate is coming off the paper of the dust jacket. Moderately soiled. Cover boards are clean, internally clean and tight. There are 4 color plates tipped in; Black and white illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket,110 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Exhibition catalog bound in black cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. Clean.
1944, Color art of girlfriend of soldier asleep at midnight. Painting by Norman Rockwell. 10 X 13". very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Foreword by Thomas S. Buechner. Color plates of paintings, b/w reproductions of caricatures. 206 pages. Levine, 1926-2009, was an American artist and illustrator. He studied at the Pratt Institute and served in the Army after World War II. Many of his paintings of garment workers were destroyed in a 1968 fire. He later became a political illustrator, and his caricatures often appeared in the New York Review of Books. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, a collection of over 250 b&w cartoons by artists like Syd Hoff, Ali, Garrett Price, Soglow, Dave Breger, and many others. Illustrated cardboard covers with light wear.
1946, Book: Very Good, Color cartoon of woman riding in a horse-drawn cart in the Caribbean by Helen Hokinson. 8 1/4 X 11 1/2", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Hardcover. New York , Watson-Guptill, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, many illustrations in both color and b&w, text, notes, catalog of selected works, bibliography, index, near fine condition in a very good dust jacket, previous owner's inscription in front fly leaf otherwise clean.
1915, Book: Very Good, Color art of galloping soldiers on horseback by Edward Penfield. 10 X 13", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Hardcover. Koln, Taschen, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 460 pages, without dust jacket, as issued. Clean, bright copy with hundreds of nudes and scantily-clad women in color and b&w photographs and illustrations.
Softcover. New York , Catalan Communications, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 88 pages illustrated in b&w by Manara. ADULT CONTENT
1899, Color art of colonial couple under mistletoe by Jessie Wilcox Smith. An early piece by this important American illustrator. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 495 pages, color and b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder dot on top edge.
Hardcover. Bruxelles, Dargaud , reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, 48 pages illustrated in color by Jacobs. Clean, very good. FRENCH TEXT.
1929, Book: Very Good, Color art of woman holding terrier in her arms by McClelland Barclay. 10 X 13", label. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Softcover. Hollywood CA, Frederick`s of Hollywood,, 1981, Book: Good, Softcover, 72 pages in color, Most illustration is photographic, some is by artists and illustrators. Lingerie, dresses, exotic wear for her (and him!), bras, panties, stockings, shoes, and the like. Moderate wear.
Softcover. Agoura CA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format with stapled binding, color wraps, b&w illustrations, 66 pages. Articles on the comic strips of John Held Jr., art of Jimmy Swinnerton, Joe Palooka by Ham Fisher, labor violence and cartoonists 100 years ago. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Sterling Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, the first 966 b&w daily strips that set the tone for the great superhero.
Hardcover. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 242 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Toronto , Dragon Lady Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wrappers with staple binding. 42 pages of Smilin' Jack strips (9/6/39-3/14/40). Clean, very good.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Very Good in dust jacket with mild edgewear, chipping. Short tear with tape repair in reverse side. Folio. 236 pages, 35 full color and 150 black and white reproductions. Brown cloth in price clipped dust jacket. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. London, Souvenir Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 124 pages, sixty full-page cartoons in color and a glossary vividly explain the "esoteric, poetic and usually approximate descriptions" found in booksellers' catalogs.
Softcover. New York, Fromm International Publishing Corporation, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 340 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Very clean copy, inside and out. From the back cover: "...a wickedly peceptive and daring book. It is also that worst of present-day literary evils, a real work of literature." This fresh and vivid portrait of the postwar Paris art world, written by a member of Picasso's circle, sheds original new light on the greatest of modern artists and on the most important and least-known of his loves, the alluring and formidable photographer and painter Dora Maar.
Softcover. Bethel CT, Apple Comics, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled comic book with color wraps, 30 pages illustrated in b&w by Lomax. Creator Don Lomax, a Vietnam War veteran, has entrenched his Vietnam Journal as one of the most realistic graphic representations of the Vietnam War. Recommended by The Military Book Club. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages. 100 plates (3 tipped-in color plates), including 37 examples by American artists. Survey of the art of the First World War by Allied artists from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France and the Netherlands, including paintings, drawings, sculpture, lithographs, and posters. Works by Maxfield Parrish, George Luks, George Bellows, Harvey Dunn, Paul Manship, Mahonri Young, William Orpen, C.R.W. Nevinson, James McBey, Paul Nash, G. Spencer Pryse, Edmund Dulac, Wyndham Lewis, Frank Brangwyn, Th.A. Steinlen, and others. Bibliography, p. 285-288. Handsome production, with decorations designed by Frederick W. Goudy and printed by William E. Rudge. Dark green boards with black cloth spine, bright gilt lettering on cover and spine. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover, light corner wear, mild bump to top of rear board.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. The story of Pierre Matisse, his father, Henri Matisse, his gallery in NY and the European artists he introduced to America. 415 pages. Color, black & white illust. Dj price clipped.
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